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Meanings of culpable negligence in English

(Law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)

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        Usage of culpable negligence in English
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        Thousands of lives might have been lost by his culpable negligence.
        Twilight Stories
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        Thousands of lives might have been lost for his culpable negligence.
        Standard Selections / A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Pr...
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        And we may become awake to our culpable negligence, and rouse ourselves to duty.
        Parish Papers
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        Apathy among citizens is really a form of culpable negligence.
        Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte
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        The second-degree manslaughter charge alleges he acted with " culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk".
        Radio NZ
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        This difference Lord Stanley set up as proof of the culpable negligence and profligacy of colonial expense.
        The History of Tasmania, Volume I
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        US state attorney Mike Satz announced that 56-year-old Scot Peterson faces child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury charges.
        The Irish Times
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        On the 14th of May the field-marshal arrived at Koniah, where he displayed the most culpable negligence and carelessness.
        Sketches
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        He is much blamed here on account of his overweening confidence, and foolish and culpable negligence in this respect.
        The Story of My Life / Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Publi...
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        He still faces state charges of culpable negligence for leaving the gun where Timberlan could get hold of it.
        The Guardian
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        Yet, not satisfied with this culpable negligence, Mr. Farrel had affixed still other conditions to the acceptance of his gift.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 / A Mag...
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        It is culpable negligence.
        The Guardian
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        Scot Peterson has been taken into custody and faces seven counts of child neglect, culpable negligence and one count of perjury.
        Radio NZ
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        To what culpable negligence was it due that such a dire calamity was not foreseen, and at least partially warded off?
        The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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        In a written statement on Monday, Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen A. Kunzweiler said Bates is charged with second-degree manslaughter involving culpable negligence.
        Ebony
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        The agents of the secular government, under the title of Royal Commissioners, managed the hatos or farms of the Jesuits with culpable negligence.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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